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Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...

As we reported a few weeks ago from our Smart Cities Forum with Consult Australia, the smart cities standards dialogue in Australia is heating up. And rightly so. The pioneering work of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia has been...

Today's connected citizens prefer digital city services they can access by web or smartphone. And that's great news for cities, because it costs far less to provide services digitally. For instance, Britain’s 2012 Digital Efficiency Report found...

Those of you who've heard me rant in person or in prose know that I hammer the need to build integrated, cross-cutting smart cities. No city, not even the wealthiest, can afford to build piecemeal, single-purpose applications department by...

It’s not any one piece of equipment or technology that makes a city smart. What makes a city smart is when all of it works together. It’s easy to lose sight of that as you’re focused on deploying technology piece by piece — smart streetlights here,...

Cities often have big ideas, but a lack of resources and expertise can hold them back. But there is a path over those obstacles: partner-created, interoperable applications. It’s a path that’s working for many cities.Current, powered by GE, will...

The Council is excited to return to Washington, D.C., September 27-29 for the second-annual Smart Cities Week. Check out the program grid and make plans to attend.As we lead up to Smart Cities Week, I’ve asked our host city to share the work it’s...

Standards aren’t just technical specifications to get one system to talk to another. They can also be a valuable tool to make sure your smart cities initiatives are on the right track — and to demonstrate that you’re a good steward of your taxpayers...

A city cannot function without power and, as you’re about to read below, you will soon need a lot more of it. But it’s not just a matter of adding a little capacity here and a little production there. For a city to truly be smart, all the elements...

As you plan your smart cities initiatives, how much thought are you giving to standards? If your answer is, “not much,” then you are really setting yourself up for failure.Standards are what break down the silos that keep your systems from working...

By now (I hope!) we don’t have to repeat the benefits and importance of smart city standards. But there are two roadblocks to success. First, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), many cities are not using them....

A city is only as smart as the infrastructure that ties it together. If your systems don’t talk to each other, you can’t get to the meaningful insights that can truly transform your city. If your infrastructure isn’t secure, you open your city up to...

By Scott Pomeroy, Downtown DC Business Improvement District; John Teeter, Maalka; and Zach Wilson, D.C. Department of General ServicesThe District of Columbia has multiple IoT-based projects underway. The most public of these projects are...

Cities have several alternatives for connecting to their smart devices citywide. They can ask their IT department to "hardwire" the connections one at a time. Or they can hire an integrator/consultant to do all that messy work. Or they can turn to a...

Smart buildings have great benefits. So do smart grids. But the greatest benefits come when they start talking to each other.For instance, the grid can ask a building to reduce its power use for a few minutes during peak periods (and pay for the...

Slowly but surely, the walls are coming down between silos to allow cross-cutting solutions. Slowly but surely, companies are moving those solutions into the cloud, where they can grow as big and as fast as needed. You'll see both of these trends...

In case you haven't noticed, the smart cities sector is awash in partnering initiatives. Companies are working overtime to pre-integrate their solutions, so cities don't have to take on that onerous challenge. Case in point: The announcement below...

We've been conditioned to think when a call goes to a 911 emergency call center it's going to get through — right away — and help will be coming soon. We expect it. We count on it. But help isn't always there. Think of it this way: 911 centers get...

By John Gordon, Chief Digital Officer, Current, powered by GEOne of the most fundamental missions for city leaders is providing infrastructure that allows citizens to live, work and play safely and efficiently. Today, we’re at the dawn of a new age...